At 2:01 PM +0100 on 2/27/00, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
> well, good to know that. Since the file format will be cross-platform
>anyway, I don't think this'll be a problem. As to stdin and stdout --
>MetaCard has stdin and stdout (as well as long forms standardInput and
>standardOutput in preparation), and Joker uses those, too. We could use
>that, as I don't have an idea what better term one could use.
Who says we need to use a spoecial term? Standard input, error, and
output are files -- so:
write xxxx to [standard ]out[put]|stdout
write zzzz to [standard ]error[ output]|stderr
read yyyy from [standard ]in[put]|stdin
So:
write "Hello, World!" to standard output
write "Hello, World!" to output
write "Hello, World!" to standard out
write "Hello, World!" to out
write "Hello, World!" to stdout
Some system specific things coould also be used -- something like
/proc/self/ on Linux (not that we'd document that or recommend it, we
just would not prohibit it).
